I have used this SRS(spaced repetition software) for five years. I was able to memorize 10,000 English sentences. I used to memorize words in context. It is a useful too for a zero beginner. I highly recommend it.
Have you ever heard of SuperMemo? If not ... you have got a gap in your knowledge of tools for learning. SuperMemo is a knowledge machine that lets you remember things almost without fail.
As an avid reader of Spotlight, you are probably eager to get a better command of English. That’s where SuperMemo comes in. Here’s how it works. Imagine you have heard a new word - for example: morganatic. If you want to make sure you remember morganatic you will probably have to repeat it a few times. Nothing gets to your memory and stays there for ever without practice. If you do not use the word, or do not repeat it in some way ... it is gone! The question is how often the repetitions should take place. You probably would answer: "if I do not refresh it in a week, the word is no longer there". You are right. Most of us, need a repetition within a week to stand a 90% chance to recall a word or phrase. But is a single repetition all that you need? Nope. So how about the second repetition? Should it come again in a week or can you afford a month-long break? There is no simple answer to the question.
With a personal computer and SuperMemo, you do not have to think about anything but the material you want to learn. You put full focus on the knowledge and zero focus on your private memory management.
It is all as simple as this: (1) turn on the computer, (2) click the SuperMemo icon on the screen, and (3) press the Learn button. Now just answer the questions on your screen and grade yourself (by pressing buttons Pass, Fail, etc.). The grading lets the program know how often to bring particular words back to your memory and tracks the record of how well you have remembered them.
In a month or two, SuperMemo will understand your memory better than you yourself do. This will let it schedule repetitions for you with accuracy that no other force on earth can beat. If you grasp the general idea, you will soon be banging grades and repeating in mind thousands of newly memorized words and phrases. All you have to do is to ask your computer-literate friends how to obtain a copy of the program, and how to set your first steps. All you need to know about SuperMemo can be learned within an hour!!!
